Biografia

Marian Dunlop. Teacher and Healer. Her Life Glimpsed.

HARVEY JEREMY. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Winchester, Hampshire: George Mann Publications, 2000. 1st ed. Life of Marian Dunlop. Pp. 208, 7 b/w illustns. P/b. Portrait cover. VG.

Fully Connected. A Volume of Memoirs.

GREET KENNETH G. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, 1997. 1st ed. "Story of a life dedicated to the service of Christ". Pp. 211, portrait frontis, 17 b/w photos. P/b. Illust. cover. VG.

John Ruskin. Social Reformer.

HOBSON, J.A. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1899. Second edition. "The main part of this book is devoted to a statement and a vindication of Mr Ruskin's claim to have placed Political Economy upon a sounder scientific and ethical foundation than it had hitherto possessed, and to have ...

The Endeavour of Jean Fernel.

SHERRINGTON, SIR CHARLES. · 1946 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. With a List of the Editions of his Writings. "Fernel began as a scholar reading humane letters, and did not choose medicine as a career until he was thirty. Behind him was the world of the middle ages of contented antiquity worship,...

Letters Embracing His Life of John James Tayler, B.A. (2 Volumes in One).

THOM, JOHN HAMILTON. (EDITOR). · 1872 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London: Williams and Norgate, 1872. Two Volumes in One. Pp.x/348(Volume I) / 344(Volume II) /4(publisher's catalogue), portrait frontispiece, spotting to frontispiece and title page and ads to end, inkstamp "From Dr Williams's Trustees" to title page. Green cloth, gilt title t...

The Spirit of the Age. Or Contemporary Portraits. 1825. (Facsimile).

HAZLITT, WILLIAM. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford: Woodstock Books, 1989. 1854770217. Facsimile reprint of 1825 edition. Hazlitt "balances the utilitarian (Godwin, Bentham) against the romantic (Wordsworth, Coleridge). He is brilliant on Coleridge, and generous to Godwin. Wordsworth he regards as 'a pure emanation of t...

President Charles Bradlaugh MP.

TRIBE, DAVID. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Elek Books, 1971. 0236177265. 1st edition. "Few men were so reviled in nineteenth century Britain, few men were so loved, as Charles Bradlaugh..He preached atheism. republicanism and family planning to a nation that was pious, royalist and prolific..When at last he too...

The English Character.

HUGHES, SPENCER LEIGH. ("SUB ROSA"). · 1912 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

London: T.N.Foulis, 1912. 1st edition. Pp.300/4(publisher's catalogue), tipped-in colour frontispiece + 15 further tipped-in clour plates reproduced from oil paintings by Frederick Gardner, page edges rough-cut, illustrated owner's bookplate featuring an owl (Frank Spicer) to ...

Some account of the life and religious labours of Sarah Grubb. With an appendix, containing an account of Ackworth School, Remarks on Christian Discipline, and extracts from her letters. Second Edition.

GRUBB, SARAH (1756 - 1790) / [ MURRAY, LINDLEY 1745-1826 EDITOR ]. · 1794 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London : Printed and sold by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1794 . 0. A very good early full calf binding. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.25". [6ppp.]/pp.438. Plain calf covered boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Re-backed in brown calf with gilt banding and green morocco ti...

Gainsborough. A Portrait.

HAMILTON, JAMES. · 2017 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017. 9781474600521. 2nd edition. "Thomas Gainsborough..was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings, and a loose libidinous way of speaking and behaving that shocked many deeply. He woul...

Each In His Own Way. (signed).

PRICE, NANCY. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1960. 1st edition. Personalities I Have Valued, Selected From My Album Of Memories. "This distinguished actress and authoress is equally at home in the sophisticated world of the theatre and in the quiet country lanes among the country people ...

The Life of M. Olier. Founder of the Seminary of S. Sulpice.

THOMPSON, EDWARD HEALY. · 1861 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Burns and Lambert, 1861. English condensed translation of a biography founded on the work of the Abbe Faillon, entitled "Vie de M.Olier, Foundateur du Seminaire de S.Sulpice,accompagnee de Notices sur un grand nombre de Personnages contemporains". 2vols.(2nd edition,18...

The Pilgrim of Eternity. Byron - A Conflict.

DRINKWATER, JOHN. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

New York: George H.Doran Company, 1925. 1st edition. Biographical study of Lord Byron, described by Shelley in his poem Hyperion as "The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame; Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument". Pp.408,portrait frontispiece + e...

The Life and Activities of Sir John Hawkins. Musician, Magistrate and Friend of Johnson.

SCHOLES, PERCY A. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953. 1st edition. Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789) seems to have been " a man of considerable public spirit and certainly a hard and conscientious worker. What he reallly lacked, perhaps, was a sense of humanity (of being a u...

Editor. A Volume of Autobiography 1931-1945.

MARTIN, KINGSLEY. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Hutchinson, 1968. 1st edition. "At thirty-three - without a job or prospect of one - Kingsley Martin fled the complacency and frustration of Manchester in 1930 and returned to find his fortune in London. Unexpectantly waiting for him was the empty editorial chair of th...

Father Joe. The Autobiography of Joseph Williamson of Poplar and Stepney. (Signed).

WILLIAMSON, JOSEPH. · 1963 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. 2nd impression. In 1952, Father Joe tooke over one of the worst slum parishes in England - St Paul's, Dock Street, Stepney. At first his energies were devoted to rebuilding the bomb-damaged church, but he soon turned his attention to more pr...

John Todd : The Story of His Life. Told Mainly by Himself.

TODD, JOHN. · 1876 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1876. Compiled and Edited by John E.Todd, Pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, Conn. "Doctor Todd never wrote an autobiography, or even kept a diary; but in his published writings, under various disguises, and in his let...

Harold Tennyson R.N. The Story of a Young Sailor Put Together by a Friend.

ANON. · 1918 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1918. 1st edition. Memoir of Sub-Lieutenant The Hon. Harold Courtney Tennyson, son of the Right Hon. Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, P.C, G.C.M.G, of Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Harold died 29th January, 1916 during a Channel pat...

Isaac Sharp. An Apostle of the Nineteenth Century.

BUDGE, FRANCES ANNE. · 1898 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Headley Brothers, 1898. 1st edition. Biography of the Quaker missionary, Isaac Sharp (1806–1897), who travelled extensively across the world, much of his travels taking place after he reached his sixties. Pp.xii/297/3(publisher's ads), portrait frontispiece + 8 further...

Sir Kenelm Digby and George Digby, Earl of Bristol.

DIGBY, H.M. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Digby, Long & Co, 1912. 1st edition. Ex Tate Central Library, Brixton. Biographies of Sir Kenelm Digby, seventeenth century English courtier, diplomat and natural philosopher; and of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, KG. (1612 – 1677) an English politician who sat in ...